Introducing Saint Jude Retreats Online Home Education Program

As technology has changed with the addition of the Internet and computer use, Saint Jude Retreats has found a way to integrate its usefulness into the social education services we offer.

Saint Jude Retreats now has an online home education program with one-on-one professional instruction. Similar to our other programs, it provides a valuable option for those unable to leave home to stay in our retreat facilities.

One of our Cognitive Behavioral Education (CBE) instructors teaches the 25 online classes, which run 60 – 90 minutes each. The program format includes email, videoconferencing, telephone conversation or a combination of all of these methods to best suit each individual.

Our online home education program is in keeping with the other services at Saint Jude Retreats in that it is not an addiction treatment program. It does not follow 12 steps or try to convince you that you have a disease and require alcoholism treatment or drug rehabilitation. It does help people try to find a better way to live their lives while fitting instruction into their daily schedules. It’s all completed in a confidential manner.

While our three retreat facilities are still available for residential instructional programs, the online home format is another way to help people overcome problems with alcohol and substance use.

About Mark W. Scheeren

After completing a court mandated drug and alcohol treatment program in 1989, Mark Scheeren realized the “treatment” he received left him more depressed and anxious. A chance meeting with researcher Jerry Brown started a collaborative research effort spanning over a quarter century and lead to the development of the first non-12 step method, the Saint Jude Retreats and the St. Jude Program with Mark serving as its first graduate and now as Research Fellow and Chairman. Together Jerry, Mark and their research team continuously test and refine the methods known as the Saint Jude Program and the Cognitive Behavioral Learning (CBL) approach it supports through the longest observational study of "addiction" ever documented (26 years - March '15)